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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Devanbu, Premkumara | Gertz, Michaela; * | Martel, Charlesa | Stubblebine, Stuart G.b
Affiliations: [a] Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA. E-mail: devanbu@cs.ucdavis.edu, gertz@cs.ucdavis.edu, martel@cs.ucdavis.edu | [b] Stubblebine Consulting, LLC, 8 Wayne Blvd, Madison, NJ 07940, USA. E-mail: stuart@stubblebine.com
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author.
Note: [1] We gratefully acknowledge support from the NSF ITR Program, Grant No. 0085961.
Abstract: Integrity critical databases, such as financial information used in high-value decisions, are frequently published over the Internet. Publishers of such data must satisfy the integrity, authenticity, and non-repudiation requirements of clients. Providing this protection over public data networks is an expensive proposition. This is, in part, due to the difficulty of building and running secure systems. In practice, large systems can not be verified to be secure and are frequently penetrated. The negative consequences of a system intrusion at the publisher can be severe. The problem is further complicated by data and server replication to satisfy availability and scalability requirements. To our knowledge this work is the first of its kind to give general approaches for reducing the trust required of publishers of large databases. To do this, we separate the roles of data owner and data publisher. With a few digital signatures on the part of the owner and no trust required of a publisher, we give techniques based on Merkle hash trees that publishers can use to provide authenticity and non-repudiation of the answer to database queries posed by a client. This is done without requiring a key to be held in an on-line system, thus reducing the impact of system penetrations. By reducing the trust required of the publisher, our solution is a step towards the publication of large databases in a scalable manner.
DOI: 10.3233/JCS-2003-11302
Journal: Journal of Computer Security, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 291-314, 2003
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